Wood Dale scavenger bonds.
$100 flat.
The City of Wood Dale, a DuPage County community near O’Hare, requires a "scavenger" — the term Illinois municipalities commonly use for a licensed waste hauler — to file a $1,000 surety bond, payable to the City, before it will issue a scavenger license. Ours is $100 flat — the price you see is the checkout price. The bond issues the moment you pay — a soft credit pull at most, never a hard inquiry.
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Three steps. One sitting.
A scavenger license bond is about the simplest filing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, and a soft pull at most.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the City
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with Wood Dale's licensing office alongside your scavenger license application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Illinois does not license waste haulers at the state level in a way that supersedes local control, so the City of Wood Dale conditions its own scavenger licensing on the hauler first posting a $1,000 surety bond with the City. No scavenger license is issued to an unbonded applicant.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Wood Dale (the obligee), with the City and residents served by the hauler as the protected parties. If a licensed scavenger fails to meet the obligations the license is meant to guard against, a harmed party can recover against the bond up to the $1,000 penal sum.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The carrier's own filing for this bond shows a term that runs one year from the effective date you choose at application, so a 1, 2, or 3-year term simply stacks that many renewal cycles back to back.
You need this bond if you're
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — a soft pull at most, never a hard inquiry.
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$100 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.